Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect; it is the age ofsystems, everysystem enforced by a treatise. The politician who opposes the corn-laws and advocates free trade, does so on asystem, which, as soon as it begins to work, will set the civilized world to rights.
[1848],J[ames] A[lexander] Hamilton, “Stave”, inA New Musical Grammar, in Three Parts: viz. Notation; Harmony and Counterpoint; Rhythm or Melody, 4th edition, London: Published only byRobert Cocks and Co.[…]; sold also by Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.[…],→OCLC, part I (Notation),page23:
The bass and treble clefs combined, include all the sounds belonging to our musicalsystem, as they appear on a 6½-octave pianoforte, extending from C C C in the bass to F in altissimo.
2013 May–June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease: The Great Morbidity of the 21st Century”, inAmerican Scientist[3], volume101, number 3, archived fromthe original on24 April 2013, page200:
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained releasesystems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, inVoice of America[4], archived fromthe original on7 February 2019:
WIPO [theWorld Intellectual Property Organization] reported that China had 17 of the top 20 academic organizations filing forAI-related patents. It noted China was especially strong in the fast-growing area of "deep learning." This is a machine learning method that includes speech and facial recognitionsystems.
2017, Ken Levasseur, Al Doerr, “More Matrix Algebra”, inApplied Discrete Structures – Part 2: Algebraic Structures: Version 3.3,[Morrisville, N.C.]:Lulu.com,→ISBN, section 12.1.1 (Solutions),page59:
The method of solvingsystems of equations by matrices that we will look at is based on procedures involving equations that we are familiar with from previous mathematics courses. The main idea is to reduce a givensystem of equations to another simpler system that has the same solutions.
2015, Meinhard Müller, “Music Representations”, inFundamentals of Music Processing: Audio, Analysis, Algorithms, Applications, Cham, Switzerland, Heidelberg:Springer International Publishing,→DOI,→ISBN, section 1.1.2 (Western Music Notation),page 8:
To notate music that is played on a piano or is played by different musicians on various instruments, one often uses several staves to notate the various musical voices. A single vertical line drawn to the left of multiple staves creates astaffsystem, which indicates that the music on all staves is to be played simultaneously. A bracket is an additional vertically aligned symbol joining staves. This symbol shows groupings of instruments that function as a unit, such as the string section of an orchestra[…].
1995, Terence J. Dawson, “Living in the Environment – Feeding”, inKangaroos: Biology of the Largest Marsupials, Ithaca, N.Y.: Comstock Publishing Associates,Cornell University Press, published1998,→ISBN,page102:
Animals have evolved a variety of digestivesystems to utilise fibre. The kangaroos have evolved a digestivesystem that has much in common with those found in ruminant mammals from other continents, but there are also unique features.
But that alter often turns out to be relatively recent and fairly peripheral in the multiple's totalsystem of alters.
2017, “A New Therapist”, in Patricia Frankish,Valerie Sinason, editors,Holistic Therapy for People with Dissociative Identity Disorder, London: Karnac Books,→ISBN,page79:
Rosie's courage allowed her to engage with me quickly and soon provided reassurance to others in thesystem that I was safe and non-abusive. Soon after, a number of other alters made themselves known to me.[…] I was initially very worried that I would offend thesystem by missing when switches occurred, or even misidentify who was present with me.
Yukawa is a small rock planet with a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide. After a labor dispute with companies shipping metallic asteroids to the nearby Arcturussystem, Yukawa's iron core and blanket of hematite were briefly mined to aid in the construction of Arcturus Station.
Some had already been incarcerated for several months awaiting trial, and some were being returned to their cells at Long Bay to wait several months longer ere they would have an` opportunity of disproving the allegations against them. Such mockery of justice is allowed by the all-powerful "system".
Don't want to grow old too fast / Don't want to let thesystem get me down / I've got to find a way to make the good times last / And if you'll show me how, I'm ready now
But ſo Matters fell out, and ſo I muſt relate them; and if any Reader is ſhocked at their appearing unnatural, I cannot help it. I must remind ſuch Persons, that I am not writing aSyſtem, but a Hiſtory, and I am not obliged to reconcile every Matter to the received Notions concerning Truth and Nature.
As we passed along, the party of Too-wit (the whole hundred and ten savages of the canoes) was momentarily strengthened by smaller detachments, of from two to six or seven, which joined us, as if by accident, at different turns in the road. There appeared so much ofsystem in this that I could not help feeling distrust, and I spoke to Captain Guy of my apprehensions.
As a politicalsystem democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place,[Peter] Corning endeavors to show that the capitalistsystem as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
In attributive use, especially relating to computer systems, the plural is more common than the singular; one normally speaks of asystems engineer and not asystem engineer.
According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990),system is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 62 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 76 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 165 times, making it the 348th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
^Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “system”, inUniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA,→ISBN
^Maksym (Melecjusz) Smotrycki (1628)APOLOGIA PEREGRYNATIEY do Kráiow Wschodnich, Przez mię MELETIVSZA SMOTRZYSKIE[G]O[...] Roku P. 1623 y 24. obchodzonej, przez fałszywą Bracią słownie y na pismie spotwarzoney, do przezacnego Narodu Ruskieo[...] sporządzona y podana. A. 1628. Augusti, Die 25. w Monasteru Dermaniu[2] (in Polish), page 4: “O rzecz drugą, iż Haeretyckie swe bluźnierstwá poddał pod obronęsystemu Kátholikowi, mężowi wysokich cnot, y okazáłey pobożnośći.”
^Ida Kurcz (1990) “system”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page573
Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, they insystem is pronounced /ɨ̞, ɪ/ rather than expected /ə/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this wordsustem. Nevertheless,system is the more common spelling of the two. Seepyramid/puramid,symbol/sumbol,synthesis/sunthesis for similar examples.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “system”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
, Oxford:Oxford University Press,June 2015;“system”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
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